Blue Pills
By Frederik Peeters
2008
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Blue Pills (subtitled: "a positive love story") is an entrancing, poetic and heartfelt graphic memoir with an enjoyable European flavour. A exploration of the relationship between two residents of Geneva that takes bite-sized chucks of everything from love to sex to children to death: with a narrator who's unafraid to get naked and intimate. At points poetically written with a free-associating and slightly rambling narrator - I was not at all surprised to learn that this is a comic that got a stellar reception in France (for best results - I think you should read this with some coffee and croissants lying in a bundle of blankets and assorted bedclothes). The black and white artwork hums with a nervous energy that buzzes along from one nicely picked panel to the next - it looks like it'd be a light read but it packs quite a punch.
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Links: Guardian Interview with Frederik Peeters.
Further reading: A Taste of Chlorine, Blankets, The Rabbi's Cat, Swallow Me Whole, Persepolis, Lost at Sea, American Born Chinese.
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